Turkey: 15 dead and 22 wounded in road accident involving bus, ambulance and firefighting truck

Turkey: 15 dead and 22 wounded in road accident involving bus, ambulance and firefighting truck
15 people have died in Turkey and scores of people were wounded when a bus hit an ambulance and a firefighting truck.
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A number of bus accidents have occurred in Turkey over the summer, including an incident in which 14 were killed when a vehicle overturned [source: Getty]

Fifteen people died and 22 were injured in a road accident involving a bus and an ambulance in southeastern Turkey, a regional governor said on Saturday.

"In all, 15 of our citizens died and 22 were injured .... in an accident involving a bus, an emergency team and an ambulance ... between Gaziantep and Nizip," Davut Gul, the governor of Gaziantep province said.

The DHA news agency said an ambulance, a firefighting truck and a bus carrying journalists were hit by a passenger bus.

"Three firefighters, two emergency workers and two journalists figure among the dead," the Gaziantep governor said.

Photos on DHA showed the back of an ambulance ripped out and metal debris strewn around it.